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Interview: Alexander Weide

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I have posted Alexander Weide's work here quite often. Read more about him in this interview.

Hi, my name is Alexander, I was born in late 1984 in the city of Dresden, Germany. I was twelve years old when I saw “Star Wars” for the first time. I watched the VHS cassette behind my parents’ back and I was so stunned by the imagery! Watching the movie was an emotional experience for me, one that marked the start of my dream of making my own movie. It did not take long for me to understand that I wasn’t seeing reality captured on camera. I quickly understood that this was a story made by people behind a camera. So I started to make my own Star Wars “movies”: I built starships and Star Destroyers with Lego bricks. They looked ugly with their random colors, not to mention that they only moved with the help of my hands. I added sound effects using only my mouth as children do and I obviously did not know how to make animations or film sequences at the time.

About the Author

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Bart Veldhuizen

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.

2 Comments

  1. This was great and I'm right there with him about why Blender and other tools deserve our support over the commercial packages. The principal of open source is so powerful.

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